Bertolino, M.; Cerrano, C.; Bavestrello, G.; Thung, D. C.; Núñez-Pons, L.; Rispo, F.; Efremova, J.; Mazzella, V.; Makapedua, D. M.; Calcinai, B. (2023). New Insight into the Genus Cladocroce (Porifera, Demospongiae) Based on Morphological and Molecular Data, with the Description of Two New Species. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(6): 1240.

453628

10.3390/jmse11061240 [view]

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3091D3F4-5A10-42D5-997C-E984E53CCB56 [view]

Bertolino, M.; Cerrano, C.; Bavestrello, G.; Thung, D. C.; Núñez-Pons, L.; Rispo, F.; Efremova, J.; Mazzella, V.; Makapedua, D. M.; Calcinai, B.

2023

11(6): 1240

Publication

Online-only publication: no ZooBank regstration for thsi publication and no archive, so not compliant to ICZN art. 8.5.3.1

Bertolino et al 2023 Cladocroce.pdf 

During scientific expeditions in Indonesia and Vietnam, several sponge specimens belonging to the genus Cladocroce were collected. The integration of morphological and molecular analyses, incorporating species delimitation models (ABGD, ASAP, and bPTP) and phylogenetic approaches using three molecular markers (COI, 28S, and 18S–ITS1–5.8S–ITS2–28S), allowed us to discriminate three congeneric species. Two of these species (C. burapha and C. pansinii sp. nov.) were supported by morphological and molecular data, whereas a third species (C. lamellata sp. nov.) was delimited by morphological data only. We formally describe two new species, C. pansinii sp. nov. and C. lamellata sp. nov. C. aculeata is a newly recorded species for Indonesia and the first documented finding after the original description. The re-examination of the type material of C. burapha, and indirectly the molecular approach, allowed us to confirm that C. burapha lives in sympatry with C. pansinii sp. nov. in Vietnam and with C. lamellata in Indonesia. Thanks to these findings, we relocated the paratype of C. burapha to the new species described here, i.e., C. pansinii sp. nov.

South-east Asia

Molecular systematics, Molecular biology
Systematics, Taxonomy

Porifera

RIS (EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite, RefWorks)
BibTex (BibDesk, LaTeX)

[Back to search]